The four Bad Boysmovies showcase an action franchise that bucks many trends, chiefly that it gets better with each ing installment. Michael Bay made his directorial debut with the buddy-cop movie Bad Boys in 1995, which saw Will Smith and Martin Lawrence play partners-in-crime in a bromance that quickly became one of Hollywood's iconic pairings. A sequel, Bad Boys II, followed just under a decade later, in 2003, with the third film in the franchise — Bad Boys For Life — arriving in January 2020. The fourth entry, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, arrived in 2024, making it the last point in the Bad Boys timeline so far. 3s3g47

Stuntman Fred North explained the process of filming an action scene that featured a helicopter in Bad Boys for Life. After Michael Bay directed the first two Bad Boys films, directing duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah took over for the third film in the series, Bad Boys for Life. In the third installment, the wife and son of a Mexican drug lord seek revenge against Detective Mike Lowry (Will Smith) since he was involved in putting the drug lord behind bars. In addition to Smith, the cast of Bad Boys for Life includes Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, and Charles Melton.

The death of Captain Howard in Bad Boys for Lifewas a shocking loss of one of the franchise's key characters. Joe Pantoliano first played the character in 1995's Bad Boys and stayed in the role for the first three movies alongside stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. While the trailer for the fourth movie, 2024's Bad Boys: Ride or Die, showed that Howard would appear again, it was in a much different capacity as the character was killed off in the third movie.

The Bad Boys For Life ending has Will Smith's Mike Lowrey confront his past, while Martin Lawrence's Marcus Burnett decides about his future - and together, they put an end to an extensive killing spree that sets up Bad Boys Ride or Die. Coming 17 years after Michael Bay's Bad Boys 2, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah successfully revitalized the long-dormant franchise with Bad Boys For Life. The movie begins with Marcus' daughter having a baby boy with her longtime boyfriend. Marcus looks back on his life, particularly his life of violence, and decides to retire.

The Bad Boys for Life end credits offers up some tantalizing storylines for the franchise's future. Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) return in the long-awaited sequel, directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. Bad Boys for Life throws the two partners' lives into disarray when a mystery assassin guns down Mike. After a six-month recovery, Mike and Marcus team up with a group of tech-loving millennial cops called Advanced Miami Metro Operations (AMMO) to track down and stop the ruthless assassin.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die is on the way, but the film is strangely missing a character that the Bad Boys franchise introduced four years ago. Bad Boys for Life was the revival of the Bad Boys series that, alongside bringing back many of the classic characters, also introduced a new batch of police heroes. Despite this, one of these characters won't be returning in Bad Boys: Ride or Die, which is a surprising choice to many.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the first film to cross $200 million at the domestic box office since February 2020 when Bad Boys For Life hit theaters. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is the latest entry from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which is currently in the early stages of Phase Four. Starring Simu Liu, Tony Leung, Awkwafina, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Yeoh and Meng'er Zhang, the film has enjoyed a successful, theatrical-only release after Disney reversed their strategy to release their films day-and-date in theaters and on Premier Access via Disney+.

Where can 2020 action sequel Bad Boys For Life be seen online, and is it on Netflix, Hulu or Prime? The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air made Will Smith into a huge TV star during the early 1990s, but he credits Michael Bay with making him a movie star with 1995's Bad Boys. Specifically, he cites a shot where his character is running in slow motion with his shirt open - and the way the audience reacted to said sequence during a screening - with helping him make the leap to the big screen. Bay, in turn, has credited his leads Smith and Martin Lawrence with transforming a mediocre script into a fun buddy comedy where they mostly improvised their lines.

Will Smith has starred in a trilogy of blockbuster Bad Boys movies and Men in Black movies, but only one can reign supreme as the best franchise. After establishing himself as an actor by starring on the beloved sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air for six seasons, Smith made his grand entrance into the big screen game with three smash-hit movies in consecutive years. Bad Boys, the directorial debut of Michael Bay, arrived in 1995 and teamed Smith with Martin Lawrence. Independence Day sent Smith and Jeff Goldblum skyward in 1996. To round things off, Smith tangled with aliens again alongside Tommy Lee Jones in 1997's Men in Black.

Bad Boys for Life is officially the biggest domestic box office hit of 2020. Serving as the third film in George Gallo's Bad Boys trilogy after Bad Boys (1995) and Bad Boys II (2003), Bad Boys for Life marks the return of Will Smith and Martin Lawrence as the mismatched detectives, Mike Lowery and Marcus Burnett. In the new movie, which is helmed by Adil and Bilall, Lowery and Burnett investigate a series of murders that are connected to Lowery's troubled past. Paola Núñez, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton, Kate del Castillo, Nicky Jam, and Joe Pantoliano also star in important roles. Bad Boys for Life went through several attempts to enter production over the course of a decade before filming in June 2019 and releasing theatrically on January 17, 2020.